ext4: fix race between writepages and enabling EXT4_EXTENTS_FL
commit cb85f4d23f794e24127f3e562cb3b54b0803f456 upstream.
If EXT4_EXTENTS_FL is set on an inode while ext4_writepages() is running
on it, the following warning in ext4_add_complete_io() can be hit:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at fs/ext4/page-io.c:234 ext4_put_io_end_defer+0xf0/0x120
Here's a minimal reproducer (not 100% reliable) (root isn't required):
while true; do
sync
done &
while true; do
rm -f file
touch file
chattr -e file
echo X >> file
chattr +e file
done
The problem is that in ext4_writepages(), ext4_should_dioread_nolock()
(which only returns true on extent-based files) is checked once to set
the number of reserved journal credits, and also again later to select
the flags for ext4_map_blocks() and copy the reserved journal handle to
ext4_io_end::handle. But if EXT4_EXTENTS_FL is being concurrently set,
the first check can see dioread_nolock disabled while the later one can
see it enabled, causing the reserved handle to unexpectedly be NULL.
Since changing EXT4_EXTENTS_FL is uncommon, and there may be other races
related to doing so as well, fix this by synchronizing changing
EXT4_EXTENTS_FL with ext4_writepages() via the existing
s_writepages_rwsem (previously called s_journal_flag_rwsem).
This was originally reported by syzbot without a reproducer at
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2202a584a00fffd19fbf,
but now that dioread_nolock is the default I also started seeing this
when running syzkaller locally.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200219183047.47417-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+2202a584a00fffd19fbf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 6b523df4fb5a ("ext4: use transaction reservation for extent conversion in ext4_end_io")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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